D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Qua

/kwä/ · IPA /kwɑː/
01 conj. In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
  1. 1.
    In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
    “It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal.” — London Spectator.